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michael mcfaul, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me.ng back to your student days, you have long had an affection with, a connection with, russia. but would it be fair to say that you have always wished and believed that russia would ultimately become more like the united states of america?” ultimately become more like the united states of america? i wouldn't wa nt united states of america? i wouldn't want them to become more like the united states, especially today's american democracy. but i did think that it was possible that russia could be part of the west, could be pa rt could be part of the west, could be part of europe, could be a democratic place, could be a place where capitalist institutions, market institutions, function. and most certainly there were periods in their history where they were moving in that direction. more like us was your basic approach, because you are a student there, then you turn into a student there, then you turn into a sort of activist there for some time, you worked with the national democratic instit

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ambassador to the russian federation and international affairs analyst michael mcfaul and also gabriellaant good to see you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> mr. ambassador, there's the letter and then there's the language that the president used to describe kim. you thought that kind of language, at least, was unnecessar >> yes why is he using that language? this is a dictator with a goolog that kills people abroad there's no reason to talk about him like he's your new best friend after a 45-minute stroll around the compound. i'm all for negotiations i think you need to meet with your enemies as well as your allies, but that kind of language does not advance the ball and let's talk about the ball for a minute, by the way this agreement is the weakest agreement ever signed with the north koreans. let's just be clear about that maybe it's the first move in a long, long process, but it's starting off at a much weaker place than any other agreement signed before. remember, all those other agreements signed before were never -- never led to a treaty or denuclearization. >> right but afte

we are joined now by ambassador michael mcfaul. he's an msnbc national security analyst. ador mcfaul, there's been a certain amount of discussion that whatever was going to come out of this meeting had already been agreed to before the parties arrived in singapore. is that a possibility? >> of course that's a possibility. that would be good staff work. and maybe the agreement that we are about to see signed was negotiated by lower-level officials and, again, the content as we've been saying now several times is what matters. it's easy to sign an agreement that's abstract about we all are committed to getting along. that would mean nothing as far as i'm concerned. but if there is an agreement that sets out a path towards denuclearization signed by the two presidents, that would be a major achievement. >> and, mike murphy, the president said just before the meeting began that he believed it was going to be an excellent meeting, it was going to be a great meeting. so, i have a feeling that will be his review of the meeting. >> i think so. you know, we've never heard him descr

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i am joined by michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia during the obama administration.eing here. >> sure, ari, thanks for having me. >> what does it mean that miss nuland is confirming this now? and i guess i don't have to ask you whether you as a diplomat did this kind of thing when you were abroad. >> well, i think it's significant that she did confirm it, you're absolutely right about that. and one shouldn't really be surprised that russian diplomats are, you know, interacting in this way. human intelligence and signals intelligence intertwine and support each other in foreign operations like the russians were doing in our country. that she said it on the record, though, surprised me. i've got to tell you honestly. >> because why? >> because this is usually very classified information. i know all kinds of things that i'm not going to say to you right now about what russians have done in this country because it's usually classified. and by the way, that's one of the biggest problems with getting americans to be more concerned about these things is we don't talk about

and their man in moscow — i'll be talking to michael mcfaul, former us ambassador to russia, about relationsadimir putin and the west. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at 5. plans for a new third runway at heathrow airport have been approved by the government. the proposed expansion has faced fierce opposition from campaigners who say it will breach the uk's legal limits on air pollution — but the transport secretary chris grayling has told the commons that expansion will allow britain to keep pace with other international economies, and that the benefits of the scheme will stretch far beyond london. the proposals will be voted on by mps within weeks. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. this isn't down on the farm, it is london's vast airport at heathrow, scene of intense daily activity. when it was first built, heathrow was meant to provide all the airport capacity london needed. it's a long and involved business but when finished, the result will be an airport worthy of the world's metropolis. 70 years later, it is bursting at the seams. there simply is not enough spac

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deputy director for international studies where our speaker this evening ambassador and professor michael mcfaul serves as director. my pleasure and sincere honor to introduce michael to you this evening although at stanford in particular mike is the man who needs very little introduction. just in case you don't know mic or his work, i will give you a brief intor. mike has long and distinguished history at stanford where he came undergraduate in actum 1981. if you get a few beers in him he was housed. it was stanford where he met wife dona and to whom he was married a little more than 10 years, mike was ba double major in international relations, he cotermed in russian and eastern european studies, he got ma here and graduated in 1986. first trip to russia as he tells you in his highly-acclaimed new book in long anticipated especially those who work with him was in 1983 as sophomore here at stanford. a photo of him holding up a poster that says russia or bust in the middle of this book as he headed off to soviet union for the first time is alone. let me assure you, worth the price of a book. [la

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and stengel, and michael mcfaul, and special assistant to president obama. e serious diplomats in a time when, chris, some tell us this is a less than serious approach to diplomacy. let's start, though, not in the trump box, but with wider context. how should a meetings like tonight work? and what are the best odds for success? >> first of all, i think it's an encouraging sign that they have shortened the meeting, i would have shortened it to 0.125 of a second, and then turned it over to experts, but they do suggest it will be the beginning of a process. i dowel we'll see -- i think we will have a commitment to discuss it and preparedness to have a process going forward. the president has made clear he doesn't -- but i think he'll take that if he kind of kept the bar that high with the notions th that north korea has been at this some 50 years. the nuclear weapons didn't actually start getting produced when they had their feelings hurt by donald trump or george w. bush. they've been add it by 50 years. even dictatorships have politics. even if kim jong-un wa

ambassador to russia michael mcfaul, spoke to ari melber about this kilimnik's possible ties to russian intelligence agencies. >> he was well known working with manafort, and he was working in ukraine, but he's a russian national working in ukraine. and the world of intelligence services just generally is murky. and to say that he worked for the gru or the svr, i don't know that for sure. >> right. >> but from my general experience in the region, would he have relationships with those kinds of organizations? my answer to that would be probably yes. >> and we should note that of course kilimnik has denied links to russian spy agencies. meanwhile on his way to the g7 summit in canada earlier today, president trump spoke about a whole host of issues from porn stars to his upcoming summit with kim jong-un. he also discussed his pardons and the russia investigation. >> do you believe that you are above the law? >> no. no. no, i'm not above the law. i'd never want anybody to be above the law. but the pardons are a very positive thing for a president. i think you see the way i'm using them. an

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. >> i'm joined by former ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. you are in the region, how significant is it to see this russian indicted? >> well, first, ari, i don't know him. i want to be clear about that. i've never met him. i used to follow manafort and i would see him, his operations in ukraine. >> ambassador, a week ago, one for one if you're doing full disclosure. i don't know him either. >> okay. i usually do know the russians. i know mr. deripaska, for instance. we can come back to him in a minute. he was well-known working with manafort and he was working in ukraine, but he's a russian national working in ukraine. and the world of intelligence services just generally is murky. and to say that he worked for the grmptu or the svr, i don't w that. but my general experience, would he have relationships with those organizations? my answer would be probably yes. >> in terms of what we do know putting together the pieces, he did invoke them, telling a journalist. that's something that could even get out, don't show this picture of me. of cours

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. >> michael mcfaul, the former ambassador under obama tweeted if they can't negotiate a deal on milkdeal on nuclear disarmament dealing with the high tariffs on american dairy products that canada imposes. but let's talk about that. is there any sort of correlation between how president trump treats u.s. allies versus how well you think he might be able to negotiate in singapore with kim jong-un? >> well, these trade disputes are difficult. we've been working soft wood lumber issue with the canadians for about 20-plus years. i don't think that tells you much about what is going to happen in singapore. i think the question is, one, do the two leaders establish sum sm kind of rapport, two, can they establish some kindf basic set of principles that involves denuclearization as the americans define it and, three, can they establish somed of mechanism for following up and working the details. if they could do that, it is a successful summit. >> you've seen the photographs released showing what looked like very tense negotiations at the g-7, the one up on screen. you've seen it before. pre

ambassador to russia michael mcfaul talks about u.s./russia relations since 1989 in "from cold war to hot peace." and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 eastern, on lectures in history, princeton university professor julian zelizer on the growth of influence over u.s. foreign policy in the 1970s. sunday at 2:30 p.m. eastern, legal historian jill norgren and book "stories from trail blazing women lawyers." watch the c-span networks this weekend. >>> a special prosecutor from spain spoke in washington, d.c., recently, regarding russian transnational criminal organizations. from the hudson institute, this is about 90 minutes. >> we're going to get started. welcome. can you hear me? all right. this is a wonderful sound system. you can hear me but i can't tell that you can hear me because it's so beautifully distributed. well, welcome, everyone, to hudson institute. i'm charles davidson, the executive director -- there we go. i'll start again. all right. welcome. to hudson institute, everyone, i'm charles davidson, executive

ambassador to russia michael mcfaul talks about u.s./russia relations since 1989 in "from cold war to hot peace." and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 eastern, on lectures in history, princeton university professor julian zelizer on the growth of influence over u.s. foreign policy in the 1970s. sunday at 2:30 p.m. eastern, legal historian jill norgren and book "stories from trail blazing women lawyers." watch the c-span networks this weekend. >>> a special prosecutor from spain spoke in

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